I seriously considered not posting a Not Me Monday this week. It is not because I don’t have enough fodder. Au contraire.
For example, Savannah was not wearing this:
during church on Sunday. It was not because one of her parents told her to “wait just a minute” when she said she had to use the bathroom. The puddle did not completely block the aisle behind us so that when that family came back from being served communion we had to reroute them into a whole new aisle.
Alyssa did not have to ask, “Colby did WHAT in my shoe?” When our family experienced its second accident of the day.
We did not have a conversation this week in which Suzanne decided to name her vacuum cleaner after me because I’m so obsessed with cleaning floors.
When Matthew asked for a piece of bread at dinner, one of the children did not pick up a slice of bread with bare hands and then proceed to pass it to the next child who passed it to the next etc. Until by the time it got to Matthew it had been handled by no less than 4 other children. Nope, we are not trying to line the purses of the pharmaceutical companies by spreading swine flu or any other infectious disease that’s going around.
In my never ending quest to stop using shampoo and still have beautiful hair. I did not find out that raw egg+hair+water that is a little too warm=cooked egg in hair. Nope, not me. Little bits of cooked eggs throughout my hair is no laughing matter and even if it was, I realize that you already think I’m nuts, so I would not tell you about that.
No, my main reason for thinking about skipping Not Me Monday today was that there is no way that anyone will believe so many ridiculous things happen in this family week after week after week. Why is it that just when I think, “Wow, I can’t think of much to post for not me Monday,” something happens?
Read more Not Me Monday’s Raising Olives style or head on over to MckMama’s blog to read what others have not been doing this week.
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HAHAHA!!! I love it! Bless those beautiful babies!! All of them!
On the whole egg thing. I whipped mine together with a little conditioner, and used warm water, instead of hot water. It seemed to help the matter a good bit. I also dyed it a light golden brown yesterday, and will get that pic to you soon via facebook. I have officially completed week 2 though, and am still shampoo free. Yeaa!! Mine is finally starting to slowly adjust a bit.
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I would have described the water as tepid, not warm and certainly not hot, however…I didn’t realize how cool the water should have been.
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I love Not Me Mondays… glad you still posted it. Sorry about the egg in the hair, though! Dare I ask how (or if) you got it all out??? Your kids are adorable. I love all the pictures of and stories about your children. Great fun, I must say. Every day is an adventure, right?
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HAHAHA
The cooked egg thing made me laugh!!!!
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wow… cooked egg! I can totally relate to the wetting the pants stories. I should start “collecting” locations where my kids have had accidents. My favorite though is when my son had an accident in the church nursery only to discover he was commando. The problem was, I knew he was commando and just forgot to fix it!!
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I think our best was Burlington Coat Factory. My oldest was about 2 and I was 7 mos along with my second. (we had went to get a coat that would keep me AND my big belly warm.) I looked over and said Danny where did you get chocolate?! (Checking my purse that was next to him.) Only to discover in horror that it was NOT chocolate that he was so playfully smearing all over the buggie (and himself), but the over flowing content of his well filled diaper. Needless to say he had a bath in the ladies room (oh yes I stripped him down to his nakies in the store restroom and had to bathe him in the sink), hubby cleaned the cart with wet wipes, and we had to purchase him a new outfit. (((Giggles))) I actually miss those days…
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oh no — those accidents sound messy. we just introduced the potty, so I am sure in for a few or hundreds myself…
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LOL! love the egg in the hair! so funny.
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I haven’t used shampoo in my long, fine hair for over a year now. I use baking soda, around a teaspoon made into a paste with a little bit of water. I get my hair wet and then massage the paste into my scalp especially around the hairline and areas that tend to be oily, I leave it on there while I soap up my body, and then rinse it out. I keep a pump bottle of vinegar with a few drops of rosemary oil in it and add a few table spoons to a cup of warm water. First I put the ends of my hair in the cup, then I pour the cup over my scalp and leave it in while I shave my legs and then rinse.
I do like to use a good leave in conditioner on the ends of my hair.
My hair is much nicer now, it has more body, and does not get oily so fast, and it seems to be growing faster.
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